Kyung-Sook Shin | |
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Born | Jeongeup, North Jeolla Province, South Korea | 12 January 1963
Occupation | Novelist, Writer |
Nationality | South Korean |
Period | 1985 - |
Notable works | Please Look After Mother (2009) |
Notable awards | Yi Sang Literary Award |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 신경숙 |
Hanja | 申京淑 |
Revised Romanization | Sin Gyeongsuk |
McCune–Reischauer | Sin Kyŏngsuk |
Kyung-Sook Shin, also Shin Kyung-sook[1] or Shin Kyoung-sook (Korean: 신경숙, born 12 January 1963), is a South Korean writer.[2] She was the only South Korean and only woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 for Please Look After Mom.[3]